Qualla: Burns Howff https://qualla.com/burns-howff en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/v/burns-howff-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Burns Howff https://qualla.com/burns-howff Burns Howff: Introduction https://qualla.com/burns-howff/ Photo credit ML5 at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Most of the bands that mattered in Scottish rock in the late 1960s and 1970s passed through one address in central Glasgow: 56 West Regent Street, a pub called the Burns Howff. It was, by all accounts, a modest room with a stage at one end and a bar downstairs. What happened on that stage, though, did not stay modest. Maggie Bell stood there. Alex Harvey met his band there. Members of what would become Simple Minds recorded their first studio tapes in what was essentially a walk-in cupboard upstairs. For about fifteen years, the Howff was the place a Glasgow band proved itself.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/v/burns-howff-wp/gcuv-burns-howff-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Burns Howff: The House Band Who Got Famous https://qualla.com/burns-howff/ Photo credit ML5 at English Wikipedia, Public domain. The Howff's resident band in its early years was a group called Power. They changed their name to Stone the Crows, which is how most people remember them now, and they took with them on the long road two of the great Glasgow musicians of that generation. Maggie Bell sang vocals, ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/v/burns-howff-wp/gcuv-burns-howff-the-house-band-who-got-famous.mp3 0:06 2 full Burns Howff: Alex Harvey's Audition Room https://qualla.com/burns-howff/ Photo credit ML5 at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Alex Harvey was already a Glasgow veteran when he started looking, in the early 1970s, for a band to back him in a new direction. He found them at the Burns Howff. The musicians he met there, members of the Glasgow group Tear Gas, would become the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, on...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/v/burns-howff-wp/gcuv-burns-howff-alex-harveys-audition-room.mp3 0:06 3 full Burns Howff: STUDIO in a Cupboard https://qualla.com/burns-howff/ Photo credit ML5 at English Wikipedia, Public domain. Late in the Howff's life, somebody installed a recording studio in the upstairs lounge and called it, with engineering economy, STUDIO. It was, the survivors recall, essentially a walk-in cupboard. The microphones picked up traffic noise from West Regent Street and the muffled th...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/v/burns-howff-wp/gcuv-burns-howff-studio-in-a-cupboard.mp3 0:06 4 full Burns Howff: Tuesday Night Theatre https://qualla.com/burns-howff/ Photo credit ML5 at English Wikipedia, Public domain. The Howff was not only a band venue. From 1973 on, a resident DJ in the bar area called Gordon Elrick ran a service called the Pony Express, which played rock to the drinkers downstairs and piped the same music up to the lounge during band breaks. Elrick also invented theme night...

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